RECORD

The Next Best Thing: Music from the Motion Picture

record

The Next Best Thing: Music from the Motion Picture

Release Year

22 February 2000

Format(s)

CD | Cassette

Writers | madonna tracks

Don McLean | Madonna | William Orbit

Producers | madonna tracks

Madonna | William Orbit

executive producer

Madonna

Label

Maverick | Warner Bros.

TRACKLIST

01

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Boom Boom Ba | Métisse

02

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Bongo Bong | Manu Chao

03

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Don’t Make Me Love You (‘Til I’m Ready) | Christina Aguilera

05

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This Life | Mandalay

06

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If Everybody Looked the Same | Groove Armarda

07

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Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad | Moby

08

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I’m Not In Love | Olive

09

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Stars All Seem to Weep | Beth Orton

11

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Swayambhu | Solar Twins

12

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Forever and Always | Gabriel Yared

Notes

Executive-produced by Madonna for the John Schlesinger film in which she starred with Rupert Everett, The Next Best Thing is less a conventional Madonna record than a carefully assembled snapshot of the music surrounding her at the turn of the millennium. Madonna personally selected its tracks, bringing together artists including Moby, Beth Orton, Groove Armada, Métisse and Manu Chao. Her own contribution was deliberately small but significant: the William Orbit-produced reworking of Don McLean’s “American Pie” and the original “Time Stood Still”. The soundtrack reached No. 34 on the US Billboard 200, while “American Pie” became a No. 1 single in the UK and several other countries.

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